The fact that you are talking about scrapping a TO-DO list and focusing on the 3 most important things you need to do every day makes me believe that J.D Meier's Agile Results would be to your liking. http://gettingresults.com/wiki/Getting_Started_with_Agile_Results

What do you need to do today? Other than read this blog entry, I mean. Have you ever noticed that a huge percentage of Lifehacker-like productivity porn site content is a breathless description of the details of Yet Another To-Do Application? There are dozens upon dozens of the things to choo...